kevel-heads

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• Kevel

  ·noun A stone mason's hammer. II. Kevel ·noun ·Alt. of <<Kevin>>. III. Kevel ·noun A strong cleat ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cat-heads

  A Woman's breasts. SEA PHRASE. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• negroe's heads

  Brown leaves delivered to the ships in ordinary. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dead heads

  Persons who drink at a bar, ride in an omnibus, or railroad car, travel in steamboats, or visit the ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bitt-heads

  The upright pieces of oak-timber let in and bolted to the beams of two decks at least, and to which ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bulk-heads

  Partitions built up in several parts of a ship, to form and separate the various cabins from each ot...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cubbridge heads

  The old bulk-heads of the forecastle and half-decks, wherein were placed the "murderers," or guns fo...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• knight-heads

  Two large oak timbers, one on each side of the stem, rising up sufficiently above it to support the ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• negro-heads

  The brown loaves issued to ships in ordinary. ...

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• range-heads

  The windlass-bitts (which see). ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• timber-heads

  The heads of the timbers that rise above the decks, and are used for belaying hawsers, large ropes, ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• wrung-heads

  An old term for that part of a ship near the floor-heads and second futtock-heels, which, when she l...

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• heads and plucks

  the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• compartment bulk-heads

  Some of the iron ships have adopted the admirable Chinese plan of dividing the hold athwart-ship by ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book